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The alarming rate of decline of bumblebees—key pollinators of crops and wildflowers across the world and an essential part of a healthy environment— has been at the forefront of scientific news for the past several years. To date, most of the bee die-off has been attributed to changes in...

Permafrost, the soils in polar regions that are normally frozen year-round, hold twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere. Temperatures have risen twice as fast in permafrost regions relative to the rest of the globe, and many fear that as permafrost thaws large amounts of greenhouse...

Health studies on the impact of heat waves have focused for the most part on using temperature differences and metrics such as humidity index to assign heat stress, but may not be fully accounting for the physiological response to heat. Algorithms that more accurately characterize exposure by...

As climate change continues and temperatures rise, people around the world will have to adapt to new climate realities. Globally, household incomes are expected to continue rising over the coming decades, so as average temperatures increase most people will likely respond by increasing their use of...

A major effect of climate change is acidification of the world’s oceans. As carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, some of it is absorbed by the oceans and forms carbonic acid. This process slowly lowers the oceanic pH, threatening hard-bodied marine life forms...

Michael McCormick and colleagues examine the climatic backdrop to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, adding an essential environmental context to one of the most-debated topics in history. Their paper also represents an important advance in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History’s promotion...